Patrick

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Last Thursday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, released a resolution to Congress and a broad outline of a vision for a Green New Deal, a plan to battle climate change as well as economic injustice. It sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon emissions across the economy, from electricity generation [...]

As we look forward to 2019, it is important to look back and reflect. Here we offer our readers a glimpse of the work that YOU helped us accomplish this past year. In our effort to “nourish intentional and diverse relationships across Arizona,” we recruited 16 new activists who attended our March “Be the Spark” [...]

On December 8, at a kick-off workshop in Prescott, AZIPL announced the selection of the Center for Spiritual Living and St. Paul's Anglican Church to participate in the Harvest of Care Gardens program, a new regional initiative of AZIPL as part of its targeted focus on food justice. The mission is to encourage more faith [...]

This past Spring the Yavapai County Climate Change Coalition sponsored its first Climate Dialogues within the Prescott community. Climate Dialogues is a facilitated, community-based, learning exercise centered on climate change impacts, designed to deepen engagement in the movement and develop sustainable leadership in ever-widening circles. Each of our 3 separate groups in our initial pilot [...]

In 2010, Prescott United Methodist Church decided to transform a fenced-in, vacant lot on church property into a unique extension of the UMC mission - growing fresh, healthy food to feed the less fortunate. All of the yield from Victory Garden is donated to the Coalition for Compassion and Justice to feed the homeless. In [...]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. We are blessed to announce that your end-of-the-year giving enabled us to meet our Challenge Grant goal! By raising over $15,000, we will soon receive a matching contribution from our national group, Interfaith Power and Light, in the amount of $15,000! With your support, as you can see in [...]

Fred Bahnson teaches at Wake Forest University School of Divinity. He is also the Director of the Food, Health, and Ecological Well-Being Program. Fred teaches and writes on the intersection of ecology, sustainable agriculture, and contemplative spirituality. I found the attached article from Orion Magazine, The Ecology of Prayer, to be very thoughtful. It is a [...]

Now is the time to invest? Is this a posting from AZIPL or Morgan Stanley? It’s a message from AZIPL, appealing for your donation, or investment, in our work, in our shared climate change mission on behalf of the interfaith community. We are short of our matching grant requirement. Your one dollar of investment doubles! [...]

The Climate Reality Project is doing it again. On December 4 and 5, there will be 24 hours of inspiring stories and conversations about taking action on climate from around the globe. Check it out: 24 Hours of Climate Reality for the schedule of live streaming and other options. They will be talking to folks who are [...]

Global warming seems so daunting. Recent hurricanes and wildfires and even drought underscore a planet in peril. Climate change is a reality and its effects are present NOW. With the rollbacks on the fossil fuel front by the Trump Administration, not to mention the muzzling of scientists within EPA on climate change, it is no [...]